Geostatistical analysis of centimeter-scale hydraulic conductivity variations at the MADE site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bohling, Geoffrey C ^a   Liu, Gaisheng ^a   Knobbe, Steven J ^a   Reboulet, Edward C ^a   Hyndman, David W ^b   Dietrich, Peter ^c   Butler, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CENTIMETER-SCALE; CONDUCTIVITY VARIATION; DIRECT-PUSH; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; K-VALUES; MACRODISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

FLOWMETERS;

AQUIFER; AUTOCORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOWMETER; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERMEABILITY; POTASSIUM; RESOLUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 84863115583     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010791     Document Type: Article

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